Falling Away

November 24, 2014
Douglas’s hard-edged, emotionally raw third Fall Away new adult romance (after Rival) seethes with passion. Good girl K.C. Carter is home from college for the summer and still reeling from a rough breakup. Vulnerable K.C. is unable to resist the dangerous charms of Jaxon Trent, the bad boy next door. The clash of personalities leads to a series of steamy encounters, and the two begin falling in love despite their best efforts. However, K.C. has to escape the shadow of her dead sister and emotionally abusive mother, while Jax has his own checkered past to overcome. When K.C. reclaims her birth name—Juliet—and Jax opens up his heart, they can finally start healing each other. Passion and anger simmer on the page, turning love into a battlefield (in which sex is one of many skirmishes) as Douglas unleashes her characters’ inhibitions and dark sides. Sometimes it’s hard to believe Juliet and Jax can calm down long enough to establish a healthy relationship, but their chemistry is downright explosive. Agent: Jane Dystel, Dystel & Goderich Literary Management.

December 15, 2014
Get in and get out. That is K. C. Carter's initial plan when she is forced to return home to Shelburne Falls, Illinois, during her summer break from college in order to complete her court-ordered community service. K. C. has long since broken up with her high-school boyfriend, Liam, most of her friends have gone on to bigger and better things, and K. C.'s mother isn't exactly rolling out the welcome wagon. All K. C. wants to do is finish her hours helping tutor high-school students and then get out of town. Of course, that plan is shot to hell when K. C. discovers that Jaxon Jax Trent is her new neighbor. While every girl in high school said yes to Jax, K. C. is the one girl who said no. Now, with sexy-as-sin Jax living right next door, K. C. isn't sure she can turn him down again. Douglas (Rival, 2014) continues her Fall Away series with another powerfully written, contemporary love story that delivers all the raw emotions, raw language, and raw sex fans of NA romances have come to expect.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2014, American Library Association.)